I used to spend a lot of time reading about movies I ‘d never seen. At some point, my wife suggested I try watching them. To her regret, I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I watched all the Best Picture winners, then Roger Ebert’s Great Movies. I discovered websites full of lists of movies I needed to see (icheckmovies.com).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I decided to watch one movie every day for a year, then I tried to watch one thousand in a year. As I settled into my thirties, I set an arbitrary, but attainable goal: ten thousand movies before my fortieth birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I watched bad movies, cult films, family films, and horror films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I watched silent films, short films, super hero blockbusters and long documentaries about everything from OJ to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At some point, I started ranking them. To make my ranking as accurate as possible, I rewatched every movie I had seen prior to 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From January 1, 2011, to my fortieth birthday (August 6, 2019), I watched and ranked 10, 354 movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can find my ranked list here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re interested in seeing what movies I’m watching or seeing any of the over four hundred ranked lists I’ve created, follow me on Letterboxd<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re interested in checking my progress as I continue to work through lists of the best movies: follow me on icheckmovies.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to spend a lot of time reading about movies I ‘d never seen. At some point, my wife suggested I try watching them. To her regret, I did. I watched all the Best Picture winners, then Roger Ebert’s Great Movies. I discovered websites full of lists of movies I needed to see (icheckmovies.com).… Continue reading Over and Done<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2578,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10864,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10202\/revisions\/10864"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}